By Mark Naison
The first wave of anti-immigrant hysteria in the US took place before the Civil War and was directed at Irish Catholic immigrants. It led to the formation of the Know Nothing Party and also sparked mob attacks on Catholic institutions in many northern cities
By Phoenix Calida
I’ve always hated the food shamers.
The people who think it’s easy for a family in poverty to eat healthy/vegan/vegetarian. The articles that talk about poor people food and then showcase recipes actual poor people can never afford.
Continue reading “Poverty and Eating Well: It’s Not So Easy”
By Mark Naison
Many critics of our public schools imply that public education is an ugly center of failure in a largely successful society. However, singling out public schools for failure relative to other spheres of America economic and social life, such as our banking system, housing market, and medical system does not hold up on close scrutiny. Continue reading “Are Public Schools Focal Points of Failure In a Successful Society?”
By Chris Crass
“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”
– June Jordan
Continue reading “Learning from June: New Self-Love and Respect”
By Mark Naison
Some of the best times of my youth and well into my 20’s took place on a football field. Like many young men who played the game, I needed an outlet for the violence inside me. An outlet that would bring me respect, camaraderie and the friendship of other men, a friendship that crossed racial and cultural barriers more than almost any other activity I was involved in. But though the game required skill and athletic ability,it was still about violence. and my aptitude for it for it derived from the violence implanted in me by parental beatings and scores of childhood fights. Continue reading “Football, Violence, and the Language of Male Domination”
By William J. Jackson
First, you must apologize for not being mindful of their disability. Continue reading “How to Respond When Someone Says They are “Colorblind””
By Chris Crass
For all of us who have been raised with male entitlement, backed with the threat of socially condoned or ignored (unless video taped) violence, we must take pause in this moment to re-commit ourselves to NOT be abusers, to NOT use violence (physically or emotionally) in our families and communities, and TO help raise boys to become men who will help dismantle patriarchy, and end gendered violence. Continue reading “Men Need to Co-Create Feminist Liberation”
By William J. Jackson
1. Re-write the 13th amendment to remove legal slavery from prisons and actually abolish it.
2. Cops have to earn guns.
A. A gun is only issued after two promotions and a year minimum is required for each promotion.
B. Rubber bullets? (still thinking about that one)
3. When a person kills a citizen while in the cop uniform, their name is released and they are charged federally for murder.
4. Right now there are folks deemed too intelligent to be cops… THAT NEEDS TO STOP!
One more that I’m still thinking about and this would negate number 2.
5. Draw districts so folks can vote on who they want to be the cops patrolling their area and you serve a term as a cop.
William J Jackson is a writer living in Florida. He is the host of the podcast “Father Teresa’s Wine Cellar“.
By Phoenix Calida
Sex work. Domestic violence. Police brutality. Racism. Misogyny.
Every argument has the same basic principle.
“But if you, the victim, didn’t do “x”, then “y” wouldn’t have happened”. Continue reading “How Systems of Oppression Avoid Scrutiny”
By Mark Naison
The United States is a rapidly changing society in ways that complicate the debate over the deaths of Michael Brown and Evan Garner. There are now many whites who are part of multiracial extended families and have partners, children, or grandchildren who are people of color; an experience which may lead them to identify powerfully with people of color who fear being targets of racial profiling. Continue reading “The Individuals Who Serve and Protect”
By Joseph Orosco
A few weeks ago, Anarres Project co-founder Tony Vogt and I were interviewed by a reporter for a local alternative newsweekly. Toward the end of our conversation, she asked us if there was something about Oregon, or Corvallis in particular, that is hospitable to a project such as Anarres Continue reading “Is the Oregon Country Fair Radical?”
